Cucumber Food Decorations

With cucumber curls you can decorate salads, meat and fish dishes.

Cucumber Curls

Cucumber cut lengthwise on a cutting board - first step in garnish preparation process.

1. Select fresh cucumbers with small amounts of seeds. Cut them in half lengthwise. Then cut the tips of cucumbers at an angle.

Part of the cucumber, cut into thin slices on a cutting board. Cucumber curls preparation.

Part of fresh cucumber cut into slices and bended on a cutting board.

Fresh cucumber curls on a brown cutting board.

Cucumber with cut grooves and grooving tool on a cutting board,

Cucumber curls with grooves, decorated with red tomato strips / vegetable garnish and decoration.

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2. Using the same angle, cut (not completely!) 7 or 9 very thin slices.

3. Bend every second slice inside, leaving the in-between slice straight.

Beautiful cucumber curls decorated with a small red tomato rose and greens, vegetable decoration and garnish.

4. Also, if you previously cut grooves on the cucumber, you will get similar, but more interesting curls. (When cutting the grooves, use a sharp paring knife or grooving tool.)

5. Add contrast, by using, for example, strips of red pepper, carrot or tomato.

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Cucumber boat

Cucumber Boats

Cucumber boats are a very well suited garnish for decorating hot and cold seafood dishes and independent cold appetizers.

Four pieces of a fresh cucumber on a cutting board.

1. Select small, young cucumbers. Trim off the ends and cut cucumbers into small pieces, apprpximately 1.5-2 in. Cut each piece in half lenthwise.

Fresh cucumber on a cutting board - next cut in the process making cucumber boat.

2. Make a thin slice parallel to the central longitudional piece to within about a quarter of the length of the piece. (see photo).

Ready cucumber boat, vegetable decoration.

3. Make a cavity in the cucumber by removing part of the flesh and seeds.

Three cucumber boats with caviar on a plate, food decoratons and presentation.

4. Put in the cavity red or black caviar and fold back the slice. This slice will be the boat's sail. Secure the slice (sail) with a decorative coctail stick or toothpick. Instead of caviar, you can use a different appropriate stuffing. For example, shrimp salad, shrimp paste, or tuna salad.

This food decoration will gladen the eyes and taste!

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Cucumber Cactuses

With this garnish ( cactus flowers), you can decorate salads, meat and fish dishes. The same technique is

used as in making cactuses from carrots

Fresh green cucumber and grooved tool on a cutting board - first step in the process.

Cucumber with one sharpened end - next step in cucumber cactuses creation.

Garnishing with cucumber/ food decorating

Three cucumber cactuses with lemon yellow strips on a black plate. Lemon on the side.

Cucumber garnish - three cactuses with green stamens on a plate, vegetable garnish.

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1. Using a grooved tool, make grooves along the entire length of the cucumber.

2. Sharpen one end of the cucumber with a knife like a pencil. Using a small sharp knife and holding the sharp end of cucumber up, thinly cut the layer of pulp. Try to retain underneath the cutting layer the sharpened end of the cucumber.

3. Repeat this cutting for as many flowers as you need.

4. To make this food decoration more attractive, arrange cactuses with orange or lemon strips.